Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
Crab en · NOUN
Meanings
A unit for measuring the intensity of astrophysical X-ray sources, defined as the intensity of the Crab Nebula at the corresponding X-ray photon energy.
‘’Tis so, Owlface,’ said Catweazle, ‘the Sign of the Crab.’ 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 64:
Cancer, or the Crab, commandeth the Stomach, Limbs, Arteries, Milt, Liver and Gall. 1668, ‘Godfridus’, The Knowledge of Things Unknown, London: G.P. for G. Sawbridge, page 19:
This Crab, I confeſſe, did ill become the heavens[.] 1634, Thomas Carew, Cœlum Britanicum. A masque at White-Hall in the Banquetting-House on Shrove-Tuesday-Night, the 18. of February 1633, London: John Walkley, page 11:
The Crab and the Scorpion much resemble each other, as indeed they do in many other instances, the former being a reduplication of the latter. 1882, Robert Brown, On a German Astronomico-astrological Manuscript, and on the Origin of the Signs of the Zodiac, London: J.B. Nichols and Sons, page 8:
The Crab was said to be sent by Juno to bite Hercules in the heel; the Scorpion to have been sent by Ceres to sting Orion. 1862, [Frances Rolleston], Mazzaroth, or, The Constellations, London: Rivingtons, page 38:
The Ram, the Bull, the heavenly Twins,
And next the Crab, the Lion shines,
The Virgin and the Scales;
The Scorpion, Archer, and Sea-Goat,
The Man that carries the Water-pot,
And Fish with glittering scales. 1893, E. W. Bullinger, Witness of the Stars, London: The author, page 16:
Now, if you went down into the forest where the spring gum-tips gleam gold and ruby in whatever sunshine, Heaven thinks fit to apportion at this season to residents of the Dandenongs (who surely were all born Aquarians) what sign of the Zodiac would you expect to meet? [...] Not Taurus the Bull, who is paddocked, or Cancer the Crab, who lives underground in these regions. 1947 November 14, Mountain District Free Press and Frentree Gully News, Tecoma, Vic., page 8, column 2: